LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Three cobles put to sea in the early morning of the 22nd April, and at 8 A.M. one of them returned, as the sea was rapidly grow- ing. The other two—the Robert and Mary and the Brotherly Love—reached the roads about 10 o'clock, and lay...

Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 7.17 on the night of the 17th of October, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a Ballycastle fishing boat, with a crew of four, could not enter Ballycastle Harbour because of a heavy swell and was making for a port...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 11.30 a.m. on igth March, 1965, the life-boat motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that two cobles from Craster had been unable to enter Craster harbour and were lying off...

NOVEMBER 26TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

At 5.5 in the afternoon the coastguard asked for the life-boat to go out and escort in the naval harbour launch. A westsouth- west wind was blowing, with a heavy swell on the harbour bar....

CANOE CAPSIZED Dover, Kent. At 1.5 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the honorary secretary learned that a canoe with one man aboard was drifting towards the Admiralty pier. The life-boat Southern Africa proceeded at 1.20 in a strong south-westerly...

APRIL 7TH. - POOLBEG, CO. DUBLIN.

Three men in a rowing boat were seen at 1.5 in the afternoon to be drifting towards the north wall breakwater, and the motor lifeboat Helen Blake, with the second-coxswain in charge, was...

AT Quoyle, in Northern Ireland, aquatic sports and a carnival were held on 18th July in aid of the Downpatrick branch of the Institution. The Cloughey motor life-boat was present and one of the events was a balloon race. Prizes were given to...

Required to be used and displayed on and after the 1st November, 1873, in accordance with the ISth section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1873, if a vessel requires the services of a Pilot.

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